A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … export market. The investment decisions depend on the expected future profitability and the fixed and sunk costs incurred … dominant channel driving participation in the export market and R&D investment. Both R&D and exporting have a positive direct …

Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on …. The firm's decisions to export and invest in R&D and/or worker training are modeled with a bivariate probit model that …. The primary empirical findings are that, on average, firms that export but do not invest in R&D and/or worker training …

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U … government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are … apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find that entry costs are significant …

manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable … for the rate of growth of exports than for the striking increase in export intensity. This increase in export intensity … income are the dominant sources for the export increase, while productivity increases in U.S. plants play a relatively small …

the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … the export market, are more productive than nonexporters. These patterns are consistent with the view that both the … domestic and export market sort out high productivity from low productivity firms and that the export market is a tougher …